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A horseshoe is a product designed to protect a horse hoof from wear. Shoes are attached on the palmar surface (ground side) of the hooves, usually nailed through the insensitive hoof wall that is anatomically akin to the human toenail , although much larger and thicker.
The horseshoe is an open-faced sandwich originating in Springfield, Illinois, United States. [1] [2] [3] It consists of thick-sliced toasted bread (often Texas toast), a hamburger patty or other choice of meat, French fries, and cheese sauce. While hamburger has become the most common meat on a horseshoe, the original meat was ham. [4]
Horseshoe pitching contest at the annual field day of the FSA farmworkers community, Yuma, Arizona. Horseshoes is a lawn game played between two people (or two teams of two people) using four horseshoes and two throwing targets (stakes) set in a lawn or sandbox area.
One of the first archaeological discoveries of an iron horseshoe was found in the tomb of Merovingian king Childeric I, who reigned from 458 to 481 or 482. The discovery was made by Adrien Quinquin in 1653, and the findings were written about by Jean-Jacques Chifflet in 1655. Chifflet wrote that the iron horseshoe was so rusted that it fell ...
The nailed iron horseshoe first clearly appeared in the archaeological record in Europe in about the 5th century AD when a horseshoe, complete with nails, was found in the tomb of the Frankish King Childeric I at Tournai, Belgium. [9] In Gallo-Roman countries, the hipposandal appears to have briefly co-existed with the nailed horseshoe. [1] [7]
Proponents of horseshoe theory argue that the far-left and the far-right are closer to each other than either is to the political center. In popular discourse, the horseshoe theory asserts that advocates of the far-left and the far-right, rather than being at opposite and opposing ends of a linear continuum of the political spectrum, closely resemble each other, analogous to the way that the ...
And all for the want of a horseshoe nail. [ citation needed ] " For want of a nail " is a proverb , having numerous variations over several centuries, reminding that seemingly unimportant acts or omissions can have grave and unforeseen consequences .
Horseshoe (symbol), "⊃", a logical connective meaning material conditional in propositional logic; Horseshoe cloud, a meteorological phenomenon; Horseshoe magnet; Horseshoe map, in chaos theory; Horseshoe moustache; Horseshoe sandwich, an open-faced sandwich found regionally in the Midwest; Horseshoe theory, in political science